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Splitting the liver into two functional grafts serves to counteract the increasing discrepancy of available liver grafts and patients with terminal liver disease awaiting a life-saving transplantation. During splitting it is very important to keep the quality of the individual graft. Therefore the two grafts derived from one liver need to provide two major features: appropriate volume and appropriate junction relative to the needs of the recipients. This implicates well performed matching of the split graft and recipient. If a left lateral splitting technique is chosen, the left lateral lobe of a adult cadaveric liver is most suitable for children weighing not more than 30 kg.
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Broering, D.C., Schulte am Esch, J., Rogiers, X. (2002). Consequences of anatomy for the split liver surgeon. In: Rogiers, X., Bismuth, H., Busuttil, R.W., Broering, D.C., Azoulay, D. (eds) Split liver transplantation. Steinkopff, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57523-5_6
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